School: Listellick, Tráighlí

Location:: Lios Teilice Thuaidh, Co. Chiarraí
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0442, Page 459

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The cure for sore eyes or weak sight was to pick the plant called eye-bright and after washing it, to boil (draw) it in hot water and after straining the water the eyes were washed with this strained water - it was the roots that were boiled. The cure for chil-blains was to bathe them with hot water and then to rub on iodine.
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Local Cures

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Long ago the old people used to boil a weed called chicken-weed and this boiled water was supposed to cure sores on the body.
The old people used to go to a grave-yard between 12 and 1 oclock at night and pick nettles. They brought home those nettles and boiled them and this boiled water was rubbed on to body sores.

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